Michael Colleary

{{short description|American film producer}}

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Michael Colleary is an American film producer, screenwriter and television writer. His writing credits include Face/Off,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B04E1DE1231F934A15755C0A961958260|work=The New York Times|title=Good and Evil Trade Places, Body and Soul|author=Maslin, Janet|authorlink=Janet Maslin|date=June 27, 1997}} Firehouse Dog, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History.

He is a frequent collaborator with Mike Werb. Together they won a Saturn Award for their original screenplay of Face/Off.[http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html#writing Saturn Award for Best Writing: Past winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512032708/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html |date=May 12, 2011 }}

Colleary is the writer-showrunner of the independently financed, action-adventure TV series, Professionals, starring Tom Welling, Brendan Fraser, and Elena Anaya, which currently airs on the CW network.

Colleary was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey.Hamil, Denis. [http://www.nydailynews.com/scripted-success-co-author-face-screenwriting-blood-article-1.772220 "Scripted for Success; The Co-author of Face/Off Has Screenwriting in His Blood"], New York Daily News, July 13, 1997. Accessed July 20, 2017. "Last month, there was a special screening of Face/Off in Cedar Grove, N.J., followed by a party at Lotsa Pasta on Bellevue Ave. where the family and friends of co-writer Michael Colleary honored the local boy made real good. 'I grew up in Montclair,' says Colleary, who in 1990 penned the best action movie of Summer '97 with writing partner Mike Werb." He is married to screenwriter Shannon Bradley-Colleary, whose film To the Stars premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.